Gore: Earth in full-scale planetary emergency

[katty]

excerpt: http://www.space.com/news/061026_gore_space.html

It was also the scientific study of near-Earth planetary neighbors—including Mars and Venus—that spurred the start of the earth sciences, Gore said. "It's still shocking to me that we have more detailed information in some fields about Mars and Venus than we have about Earth."

"Getting a perspective that can give us the ability to really understand and then effectively deal with the climate crisis is from the perspective of space," he said. "And government is not doing it, unfortunately. The private sector can."

Earth: like a business in liquidation

Gore said he expects there to be a "complete reexamination and re-imagining of what space policy should be" after the 2008 election.

Earlier this year, NASA removed the mention of Earth from its mission statement to better match up with the current administration's goal of pursuing human spaceflight to the Moon and Mars.

" used to be right up there as one of our most important priorities," Gore said. "I think that if there were a change in administrations and party control…maybe even a new Republican President would reexamine that point and others connected to it."

[rzemanfl]

1. Aw, fuck that, didjano that Jerry got voted off of Dancing with the

Stars last nite?

[gumby]

2. Well, at least gays can't get married !!

Priorties ARE important.

[lapfog_1]

3. Yup.. MTPE is canceled...

and all those pesky ocean temperature studies, ozone hole studies, land, sea, and ice studies... all will soon be gone if not already canceled. Can't have those earth scientist making forecasts based on DATA.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: